How well this system works will in part depend upon how many data format plug-ins are provided. For example, take something like the SID audio format. It's relatively unknown, but has an officially registered MIME type with IANA giving it a status above many other file format types, and it is used to provide background sounds on some web sites. Will it make the cut?
This is just one file format chosen at random. There are thousands out there, some of which are used pretty heavily for documentation in certain circles. How about all of the OpenOffice file formats, or the AbiWord format?
I can see this feature being hugely useful if Apple does a good job of providing plug-ins, and making it easy for third-parties to add more.
ZODB is very slow for bigger applications and not scalable
You'd be surprised. While I've not personally seen any ZODBs measured in TB, I've seen ones that function in real life with decent traffic that are measured in GB. In particular I know of one site with heavy traffic that boasts a Zope installation that mounts multiple good-sized ZODBs some of which are over 20 GB.
Mix in ZEO and Squid, and you can have an extremely powerful system.
Zope sites are more easily scaled than PHP sites are maintained...
Many others that don't immediately come to mind...
Zope is also part of Massachusetts' "Open Source Trough" and will quite likely eventually power the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts' site at www.state.ma.us.
Some things have to be assumed for the/. audience, though. I think a real geek should know what Zope is... Zope is to dynamic web sites what Apache is to static ones...
It should also be observed that Zope X3 3.0.0 != Zope 3. Zope 3 will have full Zope 2 compatibility, but Zope X3 3 does not.
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Zope is an incredibly flexible web application development environment. It can be used for pretty much anything ranging from a full blown CMS with shopping cart facilities to a cutting edge XHTML/CSS showcase site. It works well with all Internet standards (including XML, XHTML, iCalendar, etc.) and most non-standards / semi-standards (PDF, Flash, RSS, etc.). I've even used it to on-the-fly convert definitions from within a CMS to be served by a dict server.
The popular Plone is built on top of Zope / CMF. Ditto for Silva and Nuxeo CPS.
Because Zope is so flexible, the sites it's used for generally look quite different from one another.
The only question in my mind is what form will the other two Horsemen take?
Another Horseman has been spoken for... I read in the news today that Shatner is releasing a followup to his album The Transformed Man. Now there's just one to go...
While I can't address everything you brought up (the poster of the message you're replying to will have to do that) I can answer a couple of your questions:
please list these supposedly new and "empty" military training facilities.
The only new training facility expansion I could name was in Fort Jackson (which happens to be one of the largest basic training facilities in the U.S.). Being an inquisitive sort, though, and knowing that the military tends to employ civilian contractors for the construction of such things, I took a quick look through the publically available DoD contracts to see if there are any others being built. It turns out there are a lot of new facilities being built with planned finishing times in 2004/2005. Check it out yourself through DefenseLINK. So this one does seem to have some merit.
please tell me how keeping the experienced soldiers in the field until their rotation is up, regardless of their scheduled ETS, is a bad thing...?
Apparently soldiers in garrison are also being extended beyond their ETS, so your argument doesn't hold here. Personally I can see arguments for and against keeping soldiers past their ETS; right now we're not officially at war and if I were a soldier in our "volunteer" army and was told I couldn't get out at my originally agreed period, I'd be pretty upset. On the other hand, if we're expecting big trouble it makes more sense. Since we're being told that Iraq is under control and everything is fine, should we be expecting big trouble?
please list the high-ranking military officials who resigned SPECIFICALLY due to Bush's policies. that should be easy considering how many you claim to exist.
I'd assume that the original poster is probably referring to Generals Newbold, Franks, Shinseki, Keane, and White (that I can think of -- there are probably more). You've got him here; these people didn't resign because of Bush, they resigned because of Bush's Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld (and in some cases they didn't so much resign as retire early). Of course, one could also argue that there's really not much difference...
I take it you are referring to cutting-edge encryption code? if so, then as far as I'm concerned, we shouldn't let it leave the NSA, let alone the borders...
Oh come on, if you have any software background you must surely realize that the stuff deemed too hot for export these days is hardly cutting-edge. My company has to actually import OpenBSD CDs from Canada rather than getting them domestically because of the crazy restrictions on software exports currently in place here.
when/where did Bush attempt to reduce "combat pay"?
I didn't know about this and Googled around for it. It looks like Bush was reported as doing so in the summer of last year. Realizing it wasn't going over well politically, it was quickly dropped. Apparently in August of last year the tune had changed to one of no increase in combat pay (at least as publically argued in the debate over the Fiscal Year 2003 Supplemental Appropriations bill).
In fact, Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) is increasing an estimated 6.2%, staying well ahead of COLA and inflation increases.
Even if this is true, basic pay is only increasing by 3.5%, and that's certainly not ahead of other increases. I can see where they may not be too happy.
I personally like the games from Spiderweb Software and Ill Winter Games. Pretty much everything each of these companies makes is available for Mac OS X. Most of the games Ill Winter makes are also available for Linux and Solaris if you so desire...
While I generally agree, I'm not too happy that Spiderweb Software has yet to port their best game (IMHO) from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X -- Nethergate.
I personally find it hard to trust a company that's supposedly created a full G4 emulator capable of running Mac OS 10.3 but still hasn't figured out the difference in computer land between Mac and MAC.
It's kind of unfair judging the entire Newton line based on the original model.
It's a little like saying that Windows XP sucks (not for all the obvious reasons) because you've used Windows 1.0 (or even 3.1) and dislike all its limitations.
It's good to hear about the Einstein Emulator. I wonder what happened to the GNUton project; it seemed to be working in the same direction and as far as I know actually got a bootable system running through the magic of Python. Granted, there's been no status update since 2000, but I've certainly seen free software projects go dormant longer.
Recently Newton's Library has gone live again; I'm one of the volunteer librarians. If anyone is interested in helping out, let me know. The Newton MessagePad is a great device for reading e-books, and the potential of new hardware certainly can't hurt.
I think the claim to world's first consumer PDA designed for the great outdoors has to go to the Digital Ocean company for either their Seahorse or Tarpon offerings.
While Digital Ocean wasn't the biggest, best-known company in the world and its PDAs weren't the most popular ones available at the time, they definitely did exist and were available to the general public and designed for the great outdoors.
Of course, they each weighed in at around three pounds, but again, in that time period cell phones weren't all that small either...
A relatively simple Google search pulls up lots of info on both of these PDAs designed for outdoor use.
Yup, a typo. That's why HAL had to eliminate the human components -- not strictly speaking because of typos, but because of generally faulty unreliable behaviors.
So it was the same piece of equipment used for both the brilliant 2000 and the not-so-brilliant 2010. Was it also used for the 1999 Apple television advertisement, or was that done with stock footage or a HAL lookalike?
I suspect that most of the downloads were made by the existing Firefox users who wanted to upgrade to the new version.
What we need is some way to get 1,000,000 new Firefox users and increase Firefox's numbers at the expense of MSIE.
This will encourage (or perhaps even force) shoddy web designers to design more standards-compliant sites and make life a lot easier for designers who already do. If only IE7 supported the Mac version of MSIE...
I suppose in theory, but it's often beyond the bounds of the practical. Sometimes apps make assumptions that get so deeply ingrained that it's nigh impossible to root them out (or at least it becomes seemingly easier writing the whole miserable thing from scratch).
That assumes that the proprietary stuff will do what you want. In a case where both the open source and proprietary solutions are close to what you need but not exactly right, you've got a much better chance of being able to adjust the open source one to be a perfect fit.
From the sounds of it, it doesn't look like the book really tackles comparing proprietary to open source solutions; even though its ranking system could be just as well applied to the proprietary stuff.
Ah, but your note of the hospital's patient monitoring system is right on target. As one who used to work on creating such beasts (and reviewing ones made by competitors) I did in fact see a few based on MS-Windows (thankfully most are not).
Besides medical monitors, don't forget software embedded in automobiles.
Bad software can take lives; the bigger question here though is even if the XP system gets infected and kills the 90 year old grandpa, will anyone manage to trace the problem back to its real source, or will other things along the way get blamed instead?
Imagine if companies in the car industry worked the same way:
Gee, we found this safety problem in our latest line of cars; let's inform our premium customers now, and wait an arbitrary amount of time to inform our other customers.
People wouldn't stand for it. Why do they hold software companies to such lower standards?
I guess I'm not too surprised. Commercial airliner black boxes seem to be able to survive all sorts of crashes and accidents, and while I realize that the weight limits on components sent into space are far more strict than the weight limits on regular aircraft, I'd expect (hope) that NASA has better technology to work with.
Of course there's also the differences between the scientific equipment used by NASA and the simple recording equipment used in aircraft, but again I'd like to think that NASA is on top of such things.
You misunderstand. I'm not trying to suggest that Google is evangelizing any particular browser. I'm saying the reason the toolbar is MSIE-only is because it would be pointless to make a version for Firefox or Safari when they already both have features that are more or less equivalent.
My first thought was "why MSIE only?" but then upon looking closer discovered that it only seems to be more or less replicating the facility already built into Firefox and Safari.
Not too earth shattering, and just in time to catch a declining IE. Most of the folks who would download and install this are probably competent enough to download and install Firefox.
Interesting. The already-mentioned term "Grimwold's Syndrome" is circa 1977 (if not earlier) and the article you reference dates the term "uncanny valley" as being from the late '70s. I wonder which term came first...
In any case I don't see the creepy non-human faces as being frightening, just obviously artificial and a jarring break from whatever mimesis a movie or game is trying to generate.
Slashdot Mirror
Just checking "whois" records (and not doing a real search) it looks like Panic.com is a few years older than Vignette.com.
How well this system works will in part depend upon how many data format plug-ins are provided. For example, take something like the SID audio format. It's relatively unknown, but has an officially registered MIME type with IANA giving it a status above many other file format types, and it is used to provide background sounds on some web sites. Will it make the cut?
This is just one file format chosen at random. There are thousands out there, some of which are used pretty heavily for documentation in certain circles. How about all of the OpenOffice file formats, or the AbiWord format?
I can see this feature being hugely useful if Apple does a good job of providing plug-ins, and making it easy for third-parties to add more.
You'd be surprised. While I've not personally seen any ZODBs measured in TB, I've seen ones that function in real life with decent traffic that are measured in GB. In particular I know of one site with heavy traffic that boasts a Zope installation that mounts multiple good-sized ZODBs some of which are over 20 GB.
Mix in ZEO and Squid, and you can have an extremely powerful system.
Zope sites are more easily scaled than PHP sites are maintained...
You can check a few other high (and relatively high) profile sites that run on Zope:
Zope is also part of Massachusetts' "Open Source Trough" and will quite likely eventually power the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts' site at www.state.ma.us.
Some things have to be assumed for the /. audience, though. I think a real geek should know what Zope is... Zope is to dynamic web sites what Apache is to static ones...
It should also be observed that Zope X3 3.0.0 != Zope 3. Zope 3 will have full Zope 2 compatibility, but Zope X3 3 does not.
Zope is an incredibly flexible web application development environment. It can be used for pretty much anything ranging from a full blown CMS with shopping cart facilities to a cutting edge XHTML/CSS showcase site. It works well with all Internet standards (including XML, XHTML, iCalendar, etc.) and most non-standards / semi-standards (PDF, Flash, RSS, etc.). I've even used it to on-the-fly convert definitions from within a CMS to be served by a dict server.
The popular Plone is built on top of Zope / CMF. Ditto for Silva and Nuxeo CPS.
Because Zope is so flexible, the sites it's used for generally look quite different from one another.
Another Horseman has been spoken for... I read in the news today that Shatner is releasing a followup to his album The Transformed Man. Now there's just one to go...
While I can't address everything you brought up (the poster of the message you're replying to will have to do that) I can answer a couple of your questions:
The only new training facility expansion I could name was in Fort Jackson (which happens to be one of the largest basic training facilities in the U.S.). Being an inquisitive sort, though, and knowing that the military tends to employ civilian contractors for the construction of such things, I took a quick look through the publically available DoD contracts to see if there are any others being built. It turns out there are a lot of new facilities being built with planned finishing times in 2004/2005. Check it out yourself through DefenseLINK. So this one does seem to have some merit.
Apparently soldiers in garrison are also being extended beyond their ETS, so your argument doesn't hold here. Personally I can see arguments for and against keeping soldiers past their ETS; right now we're not officially at war and if I were a soldier in our "volunteer" army and was told I couldn't get out at my originally agreed period, I'd be pretty upset. On the other hand, if we're expecting big trouble it makes more sense. Since we're being told that Iraq is under control and everything is fine, should we be expecting big trouble?
I'd assume that the original poster is probably referring to Generals Newbold, Franks, Shinseki, Keane, and White (that I can think of -- there are probably more). You've got him here; these people didn't resign because of Bush, they resigned because of Bush's Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld (and in some cases they didn't so much resign as retire early). Of course, one could also argue that there's really not much difference...
Oh come on, if you have any software background you must surely realize that the stuff deemed too hot for export these days is hardly cutting-edge. My company has to actually import OpenBSD CDs from Canada rather than getting them domestically because of the crazy restrictions on software exports currently in place here.
I didn't know about this and Googled around for it. It looks like Bush was reported as doing so in the summer of last year. Realizing it wasn't going over well politically, it was quickly dropped. Apparently in August of last year the tune had changed to one of no increase in combat pay (at least as publically argued in the debate over the Fiscal Year 2003 Supplemental Appropriations bill).
Even if this is true, basic pay is only increasing by 3.5%, and that's certainly not ahead of other increases. I can see where they may not be too happy.
While I generally agree, I'm not too happy that Spiderweb Software has yet to port their best game (IMHO) from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X -- Nethergate.
I personally find it hard to trust a company that's supposedly created a full G4 emulator capable of running Mac OS 10.3 but still hasn't figured out the difference in computer land between Mac and MAC.
It's kind of unfair judging the entire Newton line based on the original model.
It's a little like saying that Windows XP sucks (not for all the obvious reasons) because you've used Windows 1.0 (or even 3.1) and dislike all its limitations.
It's good to hear about the Einstein Emulator. I wonder what happened to the GNUton project; it seemed to be working in the same direction and as far as I know actually got a bootable system running through the magic of Python. Granted, there's been no status update since 2000, but I've certainly seen free software projects go dormant longer.
Recently Newton's Library has gone live again; I'm one of the volunteer librarians. If anyone is interested in helping out, let me know. The Newton MessagePad is a great device for reading e-books, and the potential of new hardware certainly can't hurt.
I think the claim to world's first consumer PDA designed for the great outdoors has to go to the Digital Ocean company for either their Seahorse or Tarpon offerings.
While Digital Ocean wasn't the biggest, best-known company in the world and its PDAs weren't the most popular ones available at the time, they definitely did exist and were available to the general public and designed for the great outdoors.
Of course, they each weighed in at around three pounds, but again, in that time period cell phones weren't all that small either...
A relatively simple Google search pulls up lots of info on both of these PDAs designed for outdoor use.
Yup, a typo. That's why HAL had to eliminate the human components -- not strictly speaking because of typos, but because of generally faulty unreliable behaviors.
So it was the same piece of equipment used for both the brilliant 2000 and the not-so-brilliant 2010. Was it also used for the 1999 Apple television advertisement, or was that done with stock footage or a HAL lookalike?
I suspect that most of the downloads were made by the existing Firefox users who wanted to upgrade to the new version.
What we need is some way to get 1,000,000 new Firefox users and increase Firefox's numbers at the expense of MSIE.
This will encourage (or perhaps even force) shoddy web designers to design more standards-compliant sites and make life a lot easier for designers who already do. If only IE7 supported the Mac version of MSIE...
I suppose in theory, but it's often beyond the bounds of the practical. Sometimes apps make assumptions that get so deeply ingrained that it's nigh impossible to root them out (or at least it becomes seemingly easier writing the whole miserable thing from scratch).
That assumes that the proprietary stuff will do what you want. In a case where both the open source and proprietary solutions are close to what you need but not exactly right, you've got a much better chance of being able to adjust the open source one to be a perfect fit.
From the sounds of it, it doesn't look like the book really tackles comparing proprietary to open source solutions; even though its ranking system could be just as well applied to the proprietary stuff.
Ah, but your note of the hospital's patient monitoring system is right on target. As one who used to work on creating such beasts (and reviewing ones made by competitors) I did in fact see a few based on MS-Windows (thankfully most are not).
Besides medical monitors, don't forget software embedded in automobiles.
Bad software can take lives; the bigger question here though is even if the XP system gets infected and kills the 90 year old grandpa, will anyone manage to trace the problem back to its real source, or will other things along the way get blamed instead?
Imagine if companies in the car industry worked the same way:
People wouldn't stand for it. Why do they hold software companies to such lower standards?
I guess I'm not too surprised. Commercial airliner black boxes seem to be able to survive all sorts of crashes and accidents, and while I realize that the weight limits on components sent into space are far more strict than the weight limits on regular aircraft, I'd expect (hope) that NASA has better technology to work with.
Of course there's also the differences between the scientific equipment used by NASA and the simple recording equipment used in aircraft, but again I'd like to think that NASA is on top of such things.
You misunderstand. I'm not trying to suggest that Google is evangelizing any particular browser. I'm saying the reason the toolbar is MSIE-only is because it would be pointless to make a version for Firefox or Safari when they already both have features that are more or less equivalent.
My first thought was "why MSIE only?" but then upon looking closer discovered that it only seems to be more or less replicating the facility already built into Firefox and Safari.
Not too earth shattering, and just in time to catch a declining IE. Most of the folks who would download and install this are probably competent enough to download and install Firefox.
Interesting. The already-mentioned term "Grimwold's Syndrome" is circa 1977 (if not earlier) and the article you reference dates the term "uncanny valley" as being from the late '70s. I wonder which term came first...
In any case I don't see the creepy non-human faces as being frightening, just obviously artificial and a jarring break from whatever mimesis a movie or game is trying to generate.